until he spends at least two years in a Royal’s uniform

be patient…get it??…be patient

Teahen in RF is an improvement over Guillen in many ways, including salary, but I think that’s not enough.

As I look at the Royals salary structure and team organization, more and more I think that the easier-to-fill positions have to be filled by up-and-coming players who haven’t played out their lower-priced contracts and/or are still very cheap because of arbitration/extension. This means the OF in particular needs to be guys who make little money, saving salary space for pitchers, 3B, SS, C. Of course if you have a superstar, then that would seem to be an extenuating circumstance, but that player has to be a key contributor. But you can’t spend $17M+ on three guys in the OF (Teahen $4.5M, Crisp $8M, DeJesus $4.7) when you only spend ~$40M total on field players—at least not when none of those guys is really much above league average.

Granted, this type of strategy can’t work year-in-year-out, but an $80M-payroll team can’t be a serious contender every year, either.

You got the stamina!

thank you

although she looks like the kind of actress who only stars in quirky indie twee fests, so that’s a negative

If I did say something like that, all I meant was that the team was better off with Teahen in RF over Guilen, and that seeminly that will only happen if Guillen is too hurt to play RF.

I hope that’s distinct than someone getting hurt. My real hope si that, barring a trade, Guillen is simply not alllowed to play defense.

Like Josh Hamilton did!